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J. Lo vs. J. FoDivas collide in Monster-in-Law.

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In this week's audio-only Summary Judgment, writer Mark Jordan Legan tells us how the critics feel about three new movie releases: Monster-in-Law, a comedy featuring Jane Fonda's return to the big screen; Kicking & Screaming, a kind of Bad News Bears for the '00s starring Will Ferrell; and Unleashed, in which Jet Li plays a man raised as an attack dog.

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